Editing Slick billy (section)

=== Day five, ===


Brendal once told us about a camp ruled by a shaman high in the mountains. If I understood Brendal correctly the shaman had some nice magical equipment. The shaman also is most likely to know the location of Brendal’svillage,whichaccording to Brendal holds a lot of valuables. 
Sam had his own reason to find Brendal’s village. He wanted revenge for Brendal’s mind-control trick. This is all in my favor, maybe the revenge will distract the big guy long enough not to notice that I get more treasure then him. The humans seems to keep far out of combat at all times, it won’t be too hard to steal something before they get close. 

After a few hours of walking we suddenly came to a halt in front of a huge cliff. Our group didn’t have any real trouble with it. Sam climbed it with ease, Hugh casted a spell on himself and flew up, Tony ordered his air elemental to carry me up and turned into a hawk himself. I have to say, I’m surprised that the elemental was able to lift me, I haven’t really seen him do anything more then fly out of the way of anything dangerous.   

On top of the cliff we suddenly heard voices around the corner of a large pile of stone. We found a village, which looked quite deserted except for an ugly little guy on top of one of the houses. He looked more important then the other undead Indians we met before, but just as weak. The battle started normally, Sam charged the first thing he saw and started to hit it with his chain. I saw Sam getting shot at when he charged so I went to the side and attacked one of the undead tribesmen. Tony summoned some kind of bird that shot lighting, the elemental floated at a safe distance and Hugh casted a spell on the group. Too bad I was to far away to benefit from Hugh’s spell, it looked like Sam was hit and he suddenly hit with the speed of two. 

Before we could kill our attackers we got surrounded by their reinforcements, they came right out of the side of the mountain. I got hit by some kind of mental blast from one of them. Near dead, I was able to tumble my way to safety and summon a giant wasp to stop my attackers from following. 
Hugh was able to summon up some kind of web and cloud that seemed to stop a small group of the attackers in their tracks, Sam did his usual smash and bash attacks and Tony ran around us trying to keep our health at an respectable level. Two kind of worms appeared on the battlefield and started to spray us with acid, or at least they tried. With some quick teamwork we were able to take down the mind-killing caster. After that we rounded up the remaining enemies and slew them. 
Searching the whole village, we found nothing worth our time except for a few magical daggers and armor from our attackers. 
The wall however, did get our attention. No one is going to enchant a whole mountain without a good reason. 
The doorway seemed blocked for some reason. Throwing the bodies of the defeated enemies against it didn’t work, so it can’t be activated by something they were wearing. After searching the rest of the village, we found a lever that opened a door a few feet to the left of the magical wall. There was a dark tunnel that led to a small square room. It looked like we were expected. The moment I entered the room,tribesmen attackedme from three sides. I had a little laugh as all their weapons just bounced off my Fiendish skin. I heard Tony summon a giant crocodile, but before it had a chance to get into action we had already slain all the tribesmen. Not a bad fight for another six magical daggers and some magical armor.
The room seems to have four exits, one where we came from, one tunnel that seems to lead back through the magical wall, one tunnel exactly the same as the one where we came from except to the right side of the magical wall. And then there was a strange door that we could only open using a small wooden stick we found outside.
This door opened into a tiny room. It was a circular room with a diameter of about 10feet with leather straps at the wall where someone could be tied to. Tony Hugh and I only just entered the room when Sam suddenly pulled the lever again. I rushed to secure myself while the whole room started to shake. The next thing I know is that the whole room suddenly went thundering down like a barrel on a waterfall.It seemed that Tony was able to strap himself down in time too. Hugh however wasn’t that lucky. Man, it was funny seeing that weak archer bounce from wall to wall and from floor to ceiling. 
It wasn’t long before we stopped and the door opened again. Not really caring to wait for the others I used my powers to become invisible and snuck out of the moving room. 

This probably wasn’t the best plan I ever had, because waiting for us in the room were two giant ice scorpions. Its times like this when I miss Sam and his constant urge to get hit. These creatures had no soft spots to hit, my natural protection against weapons had no effect against their sting and they could do some kind of mental attack.
Since I couldn’t hide from them I decided to stall them long enough for Tony to get us some reinforcements. Maybe Sam would find a way to follow us. I think Hugh casted a few spells but the scorpions didn’t seemed to be affected at all. The air elemental, in a rare brave flick, suddenly started attacking our enemies, maybe someday he will also manage to hitsomething. 
After Tony had summoned a Giant crocodile we suddenly saw Hugh flee the battle, back up the tunnel where the moving room came from. A few seconds later he came flying out again, he probably heard rumbling in the tunnel, because the moment Tony and I had gotten the upper hand on the scorpions, a  moving room came crashing down like ours. This time with Sam in it.  
I must say it was fun seeing the last scorpion knock Hugh unconscious. Too bad Tony got him back on his feet before I could take a look at his equipment. 

We found ourselves in a room with three doors now. The moving room had disappeared into the floor so that wasn’t a option. The other three ways looked closed so they would have to wait ‘till tomorrow, first we needed to get our strength back.